“He works at a hospital.” in Urdu (English × Urdu)

When to use it

Use it to say where a man works; for a woman, say ‘وہ ایک ہسپتال میں کام کرتی ہے۔’

“He works at a hospital.” · The sentence in English

In “He works at a hospital.” ‘works’ takes ‘-s’ because ‘He’ is third person singular, and English uses ‘at’ for a workplace.

He

pronounpersonal pronoun, third person singular

works

verbwork · tense: present · person: third · number: singular · the -s marks the third person singular

at

prepositionpreposition of place

a

determinerindefinite article

hospital

nounnoun

“وہ ایک ہسپتال میں کام کرتا ہے۔” · The sentence in Urdu

In “وہ ایک ہسپتال میں کام کرتا ہے۔” the verb ‘کام کرتا ہے’ (does work) is the simple present for a job. ‘کرتا’ is masculine, so ‘وہ’ is a man; for a woman, ‘کرتی ہے’. Here ‘میں’ is the postposition ‘in/at’ after ‘ہسپتال’.

وہ

pronounpronoun 'he/she'; the verb shows the gender

ایک

numeralnumber 'one', here like 'a'

ہسپتال

nounmasculine noun 'hospital'

میں

prepositionpostposition 'in/at', after the noun

کام

nounnoun 'work'; کام کرنا = 'to work'

کرتا

verbکرنا · aspect: imperfective (habitual) · gender: masculine · number: singular · masculine کرتا: a man; a woman would be کرتی

ہے

auxiliary verbہونا · tense: present · present

What changes from one language to the other · English × Urdu

English shows gender in the pronoun, Urdu in the verb. English ‘at’ comes first, Urdu ‘میں’ after the noun; and ‘میں’ means both ‘I’ and ‘in’ in Urdu.

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